The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-12-22
NEWS ITEMS GATHHHS,.
AND CONDENSED FROM
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Aue Nhlley RECORD Will eoon hola
Gloster to account.
Greenwood is moving to hso.
Sc, 900 opera house.
The Sword and Shield issue. a hand.
some holiday edition.
The Methodist Conference At Js.,
son was well attended.
The Farmers Alliance of p,no,.
decided not to adopt an organ.
Two attempts at assassination ha,.
recently been made in sunfiower conn
ty.
The West Point Leader publIsh..
its delinquent subscribers in q "DesS
Beat List" o
Twelve families have recently "a.
turned to Tate county from Tsiss and
Arkansas.
Mrs. J. L. Sanford, of Blue Mo,o.
tain, has sailed as q Baptist Missions.
~ to China.
The New Mississippian's edi,o, 4.
having over-taxed eyes trsated In
New Orleans.
The Liberty Herald Ia the ofae;.,
organ of the Farmers' Alliane, ~
Amite county.
Almost every editor in the STATE f..
vors the reelection Of r. II. Henry a.
Public Printer.
j. w. Buchanan, of the arsnaa.
Sentinel, and Miss Mamie Hood, wers
married yesterday.
Crystal Springs desires a theolod.
cal seminary on the site of the Hen.
nington Camp Grounds.
A negro boy had his head nearly
blown off by gun in the hands of an.
other at Jackson, lately.
Bishop Galloway united in mar riaos
at Bovina recently, Mr.. Willie Brab.
ston and Miss Maggie Willis.
A native of Ireland fell overheard
near Greenville while at work on one
of the barges, and was drowned.
Oktibbeha county will ship $4,000
worth of butter and cream during the
present year, besides many fine cat
tie.
F. II. Ratliff addressed the Knights
of Honor Lodge at their grand supper
given at Gloster last Thursday even.
ing.
Mr.. Bradley, of the Creamery Sa-
loon at Flora, was recently convicted
of unlawfully selling liquor in Yaaoo
county.
A negro boy tried to reach heaven
by way of the Methodist church stee.
pie at KOsciusko last week. He was
coaxed down.
Senator George has introduced bills
for an addition to the United States
building at Jackson, and for b public
building at Vicksburg.
There is a rumor that Chatham
the murderer, has fed to Mexico.
He can flee from all, perhaps, but the
memory of his dark deed.
The Natchez Cotton mills Co. will
present to the head of each family in
its employ a Christmas turkey. A
move in the right direction.
Miss Willie Mays, said to be the
most beautiful young lady in Noxubee
county, elOped last week with q gen
tleman from Washington City.
A negro man who was working on
saw-mill twenty miles north of Ellis
vile fell against the saw last Tuesday
and cut his body entirely in two.
Mrs. Mary Morancy. the present ef-
ficient State Librarian, will be can
didate for reelection before the Leg
islature this winter without OppOsi-
ton.
A negro in Smith county assaulted
and robbed Mrs. Husbands and then
cut out her tongue. She recognized
him and afterwards wrote down his
name.
Mrs. Richardson, widow of the late
Col. Ed. Richardson, died in New Or
leans last Saturday and was buried
beside her husband in the jackson
cemetery.
Reuben Higginbotham, of PalO Alto,
accidently shot himself while out bird
hunting. He was aged %, and leaves
a dependent old father and mother
and young wife.
r. J. Rosser, a prosperous young
merchant of Cleveland, was killed
with his own pistol recently at LIE.
land. 1t fell from his pocket, the ball
entering his breast.
Jas. Stevens suicided at the Vicks-
burg City Hospital by throwing him
self from window, from whence some
time ago the same fatal leap was taken
by an inmate of the hospital.
Five suits'for an aggregate of$1 ,OO0,-
900 have been instituted against the
Natchez Cotton Mills Co., by surviv'
ing relatives of those killed in the ex'
plosion which took place last May.
A double elopement took place in
family at Horn Lake. Two sisters,
aged Is and Is, were married to two
promising young men who took them
to Memphis to have the ceremony per-
formed.
During protracted service at the
Presbyterian Church at Port Gibson
there were IS additions to the Presoy.
terians, Is to the Methodist Church,
to the Baptist and to the Episcopal
Church.
Seventy-nine lawyers of the Stn
District have petitioned for the reaP
pointment of Chancellor Peyton. VI
the Kinds bar Judge Calhoun, MesnH
Nugent and Neville and j. B. hH'
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